Gravitas Ultimate Vac

19 Friday Jan 2024

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It could be argued that Ben Walsh has taken the fountain pen world by storm with his takes on materials, finishes, engineering and experimentation. How many of us would normally eschew the bright and the bling yet now possess a skittles finished pen. His experiments with concrete failed, yet this has not stopped him and we have now have his take on the bulk and vac fillers. It is the latter I review here.

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Hong Dian Dark Blue Forest

21 Thursday Dec 2023

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Do a search for the Chinese firm Hong Dian (also written HongDian) and you will find, primarily on Amazon or Etsy, a list of pretty generic fountain pens though none are clones and one model does stand out as slightly different. A thin straight pen which has obviously been designed for the cap to be posted. Depending on the colour or finish this pen either has no name or is called the Forest, though as far as I can tell the model is actually the 1851 (on etsy, however, the range of 1850-1861 is used).

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Flushing New Fountain Pens

10 Friday Nov 2023

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The arrival of a Fountain Pen Day purchase made me think about one thing I always do with a new pen or converter. It is also something you still see posted as a possible fix for the lack of ink flow with a new pen. While many of you will already follow this process, there are those of you new to the hobby who may not. As the title says, this is flushing the new fountain pen with water.

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